Sony Biotechnology is an award winning, state-of-the-art medical manufacturing company that has delivered innovative, high-quality product solutions to the global market for 23 years. Their main focus is the flow cytometry market, designing and building equipment that sorts human and animal cells.

One of Sony Biotechnology’s new products needed a high-quality, shielded Ethernet cable that could meet Sony’s design requirements. The cable needed to have stranded conductors, color coded conductors, a tinned copper braided shield that could be soldered to and a low-smoke zero-halogen jacket to meet environmental and safety standards. This design-specific cable also had to meet project deadline and cost constraints.

Sony purchased cable from another manufacturer, but they ran into several issues that made the cable unusable. For example, during testing, the cable would not hold the solder to attach to the grounding wire. Plus, the individual conductors were not color coded, which made termination very challenging and time consuming. After asking for the supplier’s cable specs, it was also discovered the cable’s braided shield had been made with aluminum instead of tinned copper.

Since this manufacturer’s cable failed Sony’s testing and requirements, Sony consulted with L-com’s product management team to find a solution. Our product team was able to provide them with an off-the-shelf solution that met all of Sony’s needs, the TRD855DSZ-7 Ethernet cable. This double-shielded, 26 AWG cable with a LSZH jacket not only met all of Sony’s requirements, but it was available immediately and met Sony’s price target.